Taxonomy Term values from user profile

• juxprose

• September 9, 2013 at 11:28 pm

Hello

I have a taxonomy called “subject” that is part of a CTP called “topics”.

I have a custom field group with a location rule set for all users.

I have a custom field called “specialist_topic” that is set to the Taxonomy Field Type. Within this I select “subject” from the Taxonomy drop-down, “Select” from the Field Type drop-down, and Term Object from the Return Value field.

When editing a User Profile, I select a taxonomy term from the custom field and save it.

In my author.php file, I’d like to display the taxonomy term value. I am doing this like so:

// Get author ID
$curauth = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author));

// Var for custom field
$specialtopic = get_field('specialist_topic', 'user_' . $curauth->ID); 

// Output the taxonomy term
echo $specialtopic;

I get this error:

Catchable Fatal Error: Object Of Class StdClass Could Not Be Converted To String In

Var Dump shows (“Food” is the correct tax term)

Object(StdClass)#257 (9) { ["Term_id"]=> String(3) "122" ["Name"]=> String(4) "Food" ["Slug"]=> String(4) "Food" ["Term_group"]=> String(1) "0" ["Term_taxonomy_id"]=> String(3) "128" ["Taxonomy"]=> String(7) "Subject" ["Description"]=> String(20) "Top 10 Food Websites" ["Parent"]=> String(1) "0" ["Count"]=> String(1) "3" }

Alternatively, when I change the Return Value of ID I can happily output the ID # without the error.

Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

Thanks
Dave

• Elliot

• September 10, 2013 at 12:52 pm

Hi @juxprose

Because you have selected ‘Term Object’ as the return type, you are getting an object (just like you have chosen).

This object can be seen clearly in your var_dump.

Is there a problem that I am not seeing? Do you need help rending the object? This would work:

<?php 

$specialtopic = get_field('specialist_topic', 'user_' . $curauth->ID); 

?>
<h3><?php echo $specialtopic->name; ?></h3>

• juxprose

• September 10, 2013 at 9:49 pm

Thanks Elliot, my echo wasn’t correct, your ‘<?php echo $specialtopic->name; ?>’ fixes the problem just as I’d like.

Many thanks for your time looking at this, and the fix.

Thanks
Dave

• Elliot

• September 11, 2013 at 4:33 pm

Hi @juxprose

Thanks mate. Can you change this topic to a question and mark the appropriate reply as the solution?